Question

ricardo is on vacation, doing some mountain climbing. he notices that the higher he goes up a mountain, the colder he feels. he remembers his physics teacher teaching about these types of relationships. what is the type of relationship between mountain elevation and temperature? a positive relationship an inverse relationship a neutral relationship a direct relationship

Explanation:

• A positive relationship means as one variable increases, the other also increases. But here, as elevation (mountain height) increases, temperature decreases.
• An inverse relationship (also called negative relationship) is when one variable increases and the other decreases. Since higher elevation (increase in elevation) leads to colder (decrease in temperature), this fits the inverse relationship.
• A neutral relationship would mean no connection between the two variables, which is not the case here as there is an observable connection.
• A direct relationship is similar to a positive relationship where both variables change in the same direction (both increase or both decrease), which is not what we have.

Answer:

an inverse relationship